Shinen wrote:Hello.
I have a D-Link TL-WN723N V3 and try to get it working with this driver and no luck.http://wikidevi.com/wiki/TP-LINK_TL-WN723N_v3 says what this dongle based on RTL8188EUS.
Can anyone help me with this piece of dongle ? ifconfig shows just eth0 and lo
seems like driver not loaded or not compatible.lsusb shows Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
I try it on clean current image 2013-07-26-wheezy-raspbian.zip

p.s. I have another dongle also based on RT2870, but it doesn't work also

If command lsusb shows ID of 0bda:8179 for the wifi then you can load a working driver with the following commands

MrEngman wrote:You need to also get a copy of the Linux source code for raspBMC. I'm not sure where you can find that. You'll probably need to look on the RaspBMC site. This is not the same as the raspberry pi source code for Raspbian.

You also need two other files .config and Module.symvers You can get .config using command zcat /proc/config/gz > .config on your SD card in the Pi. For Raspbian the Module.symvers file is included in the source tree. I don't know if its available in the RaspBMC source. If not you will need to compile the Linux source and this can take a long time - 10hrs for Raspbian - probably similar for RaspBMC if using the Pi.

I usually install the Linux source in a directory in my home directory and can then compile with the following

MrEngman wrote:Hmm. Sorry not sure what to suggest now. As far as I remember the Enter key will select the default setting, in this case N. Probably just need to go through the list responding with the Enter key.

I think the first thing to try is to recompile the driver. This is because you configured the kernel and then ran the driver compile that failed then ran the kernel config again then the driver compile again but did not completely recompile the driver.

To recompile the driver from scratch you first need to run the command make clean. This will re-initialise the driver source and then run the driver make command again. Then try installing it again.

I would also recommend using the full path name to the Linux source in the make command e.g.

This is a typical error if the Linux source is not the same as used to make the running kernel. However, it could also be caused by .config not matching the settings used to compile the running kernel or the Module.symvers file is not the same as the running kernel used.

Where did you get the Linux source from and the Module.symvers file?

MrEngman

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MrEngman wrote:This is a typical error if the Linux source is not the same as used to make the running kernel. However, it could also be caused by .config not matching the settings used to compile the running kernel or the Module.symvers file is not the same as the running kernel used.

Where did you get the Linux source from and the Module.symvers file?

MrEngman

The Linux source, if I understand your question, is the last version of xbian (xbian 1.0 beta 1.1), that you can find here http://www.xbian.org/download/.
For the Module.symvers file, actually when I first ran

Well I tried downloading the Xbian Linux source from the github to try and compile the 8188eu driver and had various problems unzipping the source as it didn't appear to load correctly and generated some really odd errors. Tried compiling anyway and the tools needed to compile don't appear to be installed either so not much help.

Do you have a list of tools I need to load to compile code? And how did you get a copy of the source installed?

MrEngman wrote:Well I tried downloading the Xbian Linux source from the github to try and compile the 8188eu driver and had various problems unzipping the source as it didn't appear to load correctly and generated some really odd errors. Tried compiling anyway and the tools needed to compile don't appear to be installed either so not much help.

Do you have a list of tools I need to load to compile code? And how did you get a copy of the source installed?

I had some problem trying to use the installer for osx that you finde in the link above... so I downloaded directly the xbian image (you can find the link at the bottom of the page of download in the website of xbian) and I installed it manually following the old instructions given by the RPI site before NOOBS.
After that I needed to install just git and the development tools to use make command.

MrEngman wrote:Anyway had a look at the Xbian forum and found this http://forum.xbian.org/thread-1114.html. At the end of the tread is a pointer to a compiled version 8188eu driver and it loads OK.

Save you having to compile your own, mind you I would find it useful to be able to do that somehow if I can get the source and necessary tools loaded.

MrEngman

I will give it a try then, to me the most important thing is to get the adapter working... also because actually I don't understand very well what I am doing when I give all those commands to compile the driver
Anyway thank you very much for your help... Now I will try to install this

I have followed the tutorial above to install the last 8188eu.ko driver.
(no error occurs, and no dmesg error message with this new driver)[/quote]

The wifi you have doesn't use the 8188eu.ko driver. it uses the RTL8188CUS. The driver is rtl8192cu and should appear in the list of modules displayed by command [b]lsmod[/b] as [b]8192cu[/b]

What is the Linux image you are using - I don't recognise it - although the date and time is the same as the standard raspbian image and the rtl8188cus driver is usually compiled in the standard raspbian image.

What do you see if you run command [b]sudo iwlist wlan0 scan[/b]?
What do you see if you run command [b]lsmod[/b]? Do you see 8192cu in the list?

MrEngman

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I have followed the tutorial above to install the last 8188eu.ko driver.
(no error occurs, and no dmesg error message with this new driver)

The wifi you have doesn't use the 8188eu.ko driver. it uses the RTL8188CUS. The driver is rtl8192cu and should appear in the list of modules displayed by command lsmod as 8192cu

What is the Linux image you are using - I don't recognise it - although the date and time is the same as the standard raspbian image and the rtl8188cus driver is usually compiled in the standard raspbian image.

What do you see if you run command sudo iwlist wlan0 scan?
What do you see if you run command lsmod? Do you see 8192cu in the list?

MrEngman

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